Title: Every Witch Way but Meow
Author: K.E. O'Connor
Date: 2022
Publisher: K.E. O'Connor
Quote: "She was a wonderful witch. Almost my equal, just without a tail."
The Magical Misfits series is about a lot of fabulous and/or mythical creatures, the rational ones not necessarily in human form, the lower animals not necessarily four-legged either. Juno (in this case Juno of Avalon), the narrator, is a demigoddess in cat form, which allows her to communicate clearly with only one human, Zandra. Zandra's mother, Adrienne, became a mother as part of a long pattern of behaving like an irresponsible spoilt brat; in this volume she's disappeared from her latest residence in Crimson Cove, leaving enough debts to explain her disappearance to anyone but Zandra. Zandra goes to Crimson Cove and is offered a job in a bookstore right away but, since she's not a real book person, Juno steers her to the position of animal warden. She's off to catch a pack of babboas...whatever they are. The book doesn't really explain. Maybe that comes in the next volume.
This short-novel-length "book" is clearly part of a longer story arc, the Amazon favorite model of five 30,000-word novelettes that together form one 150,000-word blockbuster, sold separately or together. It's all one big situation comedy. If you think this kind of adventure is funny you'll want the whole series, or long novel, whichever you call it. Promotional material attached to this e-book specifies that in some of the five volumes humans will be murdered. Solving that mystery will be part of Zandra's quest to understand Adrienne.
I laughed, and I'd probably remember the series and buy a copy if I found a copy of any or all of the Magical Misfits Series on sale in aid of a good cause. Then again I feel no particular compulsion to buy the whole series, right away, from Amazon.
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